Mike Featherstone & Scott M Lash 
Spaces of Culture [PDF ebook] 
City, Nation, World

In
Spaces of Culture an international group of scholars examines the implications of questions such as: What is culture? What is the relationship between social structure and culture in a globalized and networked world? Do critical perspectives still apply, or does the speed and complexity of cultural production demand new forms of analysis?

They explore the key themes in social theory: the nation state; the city; modernity and reflexivity; post-Fordism and the spatial logic of the informational city. The contributors go on to analyze the public sphere, questioning the reductive representation of technology as a form of instrumentality, and demonstrating how new technologies can offer new spaces of culture. This analysis of public space is essential to an understanding of issues like global citizenship and multicultural human rights.

Зміст

Introduction – Mike Featherstone and Scott Lash

PART ONE: TECHNOLOGICAL SPACE

Growth and Failure – Richard Sennett

The New Political Economy and Its Culture

Simulated Sovereignty, Telematic Territoriality – Timothy W Luke

The Political Economy of Cyberspace

Digital Networks and Power – Saskia Sassen

PART TWO: CULTURAL MAPPING

The Postmodern Urban Condition – Michael Dear and Steven Flusty

Roaming the City – Hilary Radner

Proper Women in Improper Places

PART THREE: REFLEXIVE SPACE

Not All That Is Solid Melts into Air – Heidrun Friese and Peter Wagner

Modernity and Contingency

Moving Culture – Ron Eyerman

Radiated Identities – Barbara Adam

In Pursuit of the Temporal Complexity of Conceptual Cultural Practices

PART FOUR: CARTOGRAPHIES OF A NATION

Triumphalist Geographies – Michael J Shapiro

The Anti-Reflexivist Revolution – G[um]oran Dahl

On the Affirmationism of the New Right

PART FIVE: TRANSCULTURAL PLACE

Transculturality – Wolfgang Welsch

The Puzzling Form of Cultures Today

Towards a Multicultural Conception of Human Rights – Boaventura de Sousa Santos

The Hybridization of Roots and the Abhorrence of the Bush – Jonathan Friedman

Narrating the Postcolonial – Couze Venn

Про автора

Professor Scott Lash is the Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, as well as a a project leader in the Goldsmiths Media Research Programme. He is a leading name within sociology and cultural studies, has written numerous books and articles over the last twenty years, and is currently the managing editor for the journal Theory, Culture and Society.